Posts Tagged ‘Act of Union’

Almost no one saw it coming. The surge in Scottish separatism over the past three weeks violates an elemental law of referendums: that there is a swing to the status quo during the last phase of the c...
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Britons have become somewhat diffident about their nationality. It wasn’t always so; well into the 1960s, British patriotism was seen as an unambiguously positive value, like honesty, generosity or ...
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One of the most grating developments in politics over the past decade has been the usurping of morality by evidence. Everything must be “evidence-based” these days. From drugs policy to educationa...
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Finding myself in Whitehall with twenty minutes to spare this afternoon, I ducked into the Banqueting House, spread my coat on the floor and lay on it, staring at the ceiling. All this talk of sunderi...
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